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1. 91.▲
   Doing Good Through For-Profits: Lincoln Quirk and Wave(80000hours.org)

   2 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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   Probabilistic Programming with Gaussian Process Memoization(arxiv.org)

   5 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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   Yuval Harari: Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets(youtube.com)

   2 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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   Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics (one Why for Hard Takeoff) [pdf](intelligence.org)

   2 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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   by poppingtonic 11y ago

   'If you were to come up with a sort of objective zoological IQ based on amount of evolutionary work required to reach a certain level, complexity of brain structures, etc, you might put nematodes at 1, cows at 90, chimps at 99, homo er
6. 96.▲
   by poppingtonic 11y ago

   http://github.com/brendenlake/visual-turing-tests , http://github.com/brendenlake/omniglot and http://github.com/brendenlake/BPL
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   by poppingtonic 11y ago

   Bayesian Program Learning is probably the most powerful of the technologies that come with the use of fully probabilistic programming languages. This is a subset of a technique known as "probabilistic generative modelling", in whi
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   Designing Scalable Biological Interfaces(dash.harvard.edu)

   2 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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   Tor Socks Proxy and Privoxy Containers(blog.jessfraz.com)

   2 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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    by poppingtonic 11y ago

    [Gwern]( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern ) has done some interesting self-medication experiments [here]( http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil ), for Modafinil and [here]( http://www.gwern.net&#x2
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    Digital Reality – A Conversation with Neil Gershenfeld(edge.org)

    11 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|1 comments
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    Design for Conversions(casjam.com)

    1 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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    by poppingtonic 11y ago

    This makes such an interesting case. There a number of concepts so original and unique that they haven't been included "as a single word" in the conversations that are likely to determine what is considered relevant in world
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    Rudy Rucker's Notes on Writing(rudyrucker.com)

    1 points by poppingtonic 11y ago|0 comments
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    Probabilistic Models of Cognition(probmods.org)

    80 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|1 comments
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    Existential Risk Reduction as Global Priority [pdf](existential-risk.org)

    1 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|0 comments
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    Precisely Bound Demons and Their Behaviour(reddit.com)

    2 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|0 comments
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    Keep Your Identity Fluid(rationality.org)

    1 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|0 comments
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    by poppingtonic 12y ago

    Livecoding is awesome, and one of the coolest resources when I started getting interested in it was pawfal.org and Fluxus. What an interesting way to represent s-expressions.
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    by poppingtonic 12y ago

    Bitpesa: http://bitpesa.co Based in London and Nairobi, they've built a Bitcoin-based service that enables migrants & expats to send money quickly and safely back to their relatives (called remittances in FinTech parlan
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    A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System (2001)(inference.phy.cam.ac.uk)

    88 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|28 comments
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    Nicholas Humphrey – What Shall We Tell the Children? (1998) [pdf](humphrey.org.uk)

    1 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|0 comments
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    by poppingtonic 12y ago

    I'd like to point out the following paragraph as evidence of a rather hackerly trait in DFW. "The publication limited him to 1,000 words, which Wallace elided by transgressing the traditional review format. He composed the entire
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    Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up (2013)(stefan.saasen.me)

    288 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|39 comments
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    Y Not: Adventures in Functional Programming in Ruby(youtube.com)

    3 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|0 comments
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    SICP 2.6: Church Numerals (2011)(jlongster.com)

    59 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|18 comments
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    Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace(github.com)

    140 points by poppingtonic 12y ago|60 comments
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    by poppingtonic 13y ago

    Look at the blog lesswrong.com. It's a community blog built from reddit's code. It has a wiki as well. https://github.com/tricycle/lesswrong‎
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    Botworld: a cellular automaton for studying self-modifying embedded agents (lesswrong.com)

    2 points by poppingtonic 13y ago|0 comments
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    Experiments in Musical Composition with ALife(seaquence.org)

    3 points by poppingtonic 13y ago|0 comments